WARSAW, Poland—Poland's deputy culture minister said Wednesday he is happy that author Olga Tokarczuk is the first Pole to win the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for fiction. Polish author Olga Tokarczuk smiles after winning the Man Booker International Prize 2018, Tuesday, May 22, 2018, for her book Flights, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Tokarczuk won the prize Tuesday with her novel Flights that charts multiple journeys in time, space and human anatomy. Its Polish original Bieguni was published in 2007 and was translated last year by Jennifer Croft, who shares the prize. The prize is a counterpart to the Man Booker Prize for English-language novels and is open to books in any language that have been translated into English.

Source: thestar May 23, 2018 20:26 UTC